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IPv6 at Anchor Systems

As discussed briefly in a recent blog post, Anchor is committing to rolling out IPv6. Why? Because it's in the best interests of us, our customers and the Internet as a whole. For that to happen, IPv6 needs to be demystified and most importantly, made available. We believe that by making our IPv6 plans public and documenting our progress through the deployment we'll help IPv6 on a larger scale.

Below is a timeline of our progress to date, and future steps we need to take to make IPv6 a reality at Anchor. Please check this page regularly as we'll be updating it whenever progress is made.

Current Progress

(30/01/09) This wiki page has been created to document our progress!

(30/01/09) There seems to be a dearth of good IPv6 resources on the Internet. Many are outdated, no longer available or only accessible via IPv6 hosts (in a terrible Catch-22)! I recommend the following:

Wikipedia IPv6 page (linked at the bottom of this page)

IPv6 Network Administration by Niall Murphy and David Malone, published by O'Reilly (ISBN 978-0-596-00934-2)

(06/05/09) Internal IPv6 documentation has been created, it will likely be a work in progress for some time.

(06/05/09) Preliminary investigation into our existing systems shows that a lot of support for IPv6 already exists. Changes to custom internal systems will likely be quite minor.

(12/05/09) A request for an IPv6 allocation has been made to APNIC. In the meantime we have been granted an additional IPv4 allocation from APNIC which should easily satisfy our IPv4 requirements until there is significant IPv6 uptake.

(14/05/09) Anchor has received an IPv6 allocation from APNIC - 2407:7800::/32